Yearly Archives: 2009

Pakistan

| December 9, 2009

Retired Pakistani major charged with acting as al-Qaeda go-between

Yemen

| December 9, 2009

US to check Al Qaeda fallout on Yemen, Somalia

Afghanistan

| December 9, 2009

Petraeus: Wait until December 2010 to gauge US success in Afghanistan

Al Qaeda

| December 9, 2009

Iraq: Attacks do not signal return to post-Saddam era, says expert

Iraq

| December 9, 2009

Five Iraqis were killed in two bombings in northeastern and southern Baghdad. Security forces detained a senior Promised Day Brigade commander in Baghdad, a female suicide bomber recruiter in Baqubah, and 11 wanted men in Basrah and 11 more in Amarah. Iraqi border guards arrested 130 people for illegally entering Iraq from Syria.

Iraq

| December 9, 2009

Iraq’s Maliki blasts foreign support for bombings

Muslims account for 85 percent of casualties in al Qaeda attacks

| December 9, 2009

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point recently released a stunning report which found that Muslims have accounted for 85 percent of the casualties from al Qaeda attacks between 2004-2008. Even more astounding, during the last two years of the study (2006-2008), the percentage of al Qaeda’s Muslim victims skyrocketed to an almost-unbelievable 98 percent. […]

India

| December 9, 2009

India – Software industry high on terrorists’ target list: Home secretary

Afghanistan

| December 9, 2009

Afghan and Coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters in Kunduz and three more in Kandahar. The Taliban killed two civilians in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Thirty Taliban fighters surrendered to the government in Baghlan.

Iran

| December 9, 2009

Iran claimed that a new UN station to detect nuclear explosions built near its border is used for spying by the West. Saudi Arabia denied it kidnapped an Iranian nuclear scientist during the Haj. A judiciary official said Iran will “show no mercy” toward opposition protesters.

New charges against Headley for 2008 Mumbai attacks

| December 9, 2009

David Coleman Headley, and a snapshot from his passport. Images from The Hindu. In October, 49-year-old Chicago man David Headley (born Daood Gilani) was arrested for his role in planning terrorist attacks against the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and two individuals associated with the notorious Muhammad cartoons incident. Subsequent to Headley’s arrest, news broke that […]

‘We will wait till January for our offensive’ – Hakeemullah

| December 8, 2009

Taliban commander Hakeemullah Mehsud at a press conference in Peshawar in 2008. Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, came out of hiding to talk to CNN about the military operation in South Waziristan and the Taliban’s planned response: “We will wait till January for our offensive since we are […]

Pakistan

| December 8, 2009

A Taliban suicide assault team killed 12 people during an attack on an Inter-Services Intelligence agency building in Multan. The US killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces detained 14 Taliban fighters in Swat and four more in South Waziristan.

Somalia

| December 8, 2009

Eight Somalis were killed in shelling in Mogadishu. Three soldiers were killed during fighting within the ranks. Unknown gunmen killed an imam in Bosaso. Shabaab banned the sale of khat in Afmadow.